The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both - Vaclav Havel

Friday, October 31, 2008

Obama the Hypnotist...

I don't recall an election campaign in which negative campaigning has played such vital part. It's always there but this time more than ever. And it comes from both sides but the Republicans have really surpassed themselves this time. Perhaps they felt that somehow there was more at stake this time or that it would be easy to tar the relative outsider Barack Obama. And so we've had Barack Hussein the Mooooslim/Aa-rab, Barack Obabykiller, Barack the not-naturally-born-US-citizen, Barack the Terrorist and Barack the Socialist. And rumours about Obama's secret hypnosis techniques have been running rife the last few weeks. But now, in a decidedly last ditch swing, someone has been working hard to flesh out the "theory" of Barack the Hypnotist.

In this astonishingly long and detailed *.pdf, published by anonymous, the unknown author(s?) make the highly risible case for Obama's "Ecksonian" powers of hypnosis.

Despite the veneer of pseudo-science the document is essentially identical to any long-winded Internet sales letter for one of these many pseudo-products that no one wants.

But let's look on the bright side: if it's all true then Obama's awesome powers will come in handy when he sits down without preconditions with the Iranians (and with hypnotic powers who needs preconditions?) I can just see him now, telling Ahmadinejad to look into his eyes and promise to hand over every single enrichment centrifuge, PDQ... or else he'll mass-convert the Iranian clergy to Christianity...